November 28, 2010

Cosimo Cecchi started porting the “removable media” preferences tab of Nautilus to be a new control center panel.

A limit to the number of times gnome-session will try to restart an application has been added by Jon McCann; it’s still missing the display of en error dialog when such a situation happens . (GNOME bug 634762)

Johannes Schmid added a new code analyser plugin to Anjuta, it uses clang and the results are displayed in the message pane like compiler errors.

Pedro Castro improved the support for FAB Subtitler files in gnome-subtitles.

Gabriel Burt added back a podcast browser to Banshee.

After months of work TLS support has finally landed in glib, many thanks to Dan Winship, it adds an extension point into gio, and glib-networking provides a gnutls-based implementation . (GNOME bug 588189)

Lucas Rocha started a nautilus extension for the-board; at the moment it allows adding photos to The Board.

Alexander Larsson landed a “broadway” branch into GTK+, this adds a HTML backend to GTK+; he had written about this before in GTK+ 3 vs HTML 5.

A Kupfer plugin that adds a quick access to tasks from Getting Things GNOME! has been contributed by Karol Będkowski.

The “Default Applications” capplet has been converted to a settings panel.

Support for devices with sector sizes of more than 512 bytes have been enabled in gparted (GNOME bug 607165)

Adel Gadllah contributed to GNOME Shell, with a patch to make sure the app switcher would always be displayed on the primary monitor.

XInput2 support has been merged in GTK+, enabling the use of multiple keyboards and pointer pairs . (GNOME bug 596725)

Both GNOME Color Manager and Evince have been ported to use GDBus.

Alexander Larsson added some initial support for dtrace and systemtap to GLib, the current set of probes is on allocation and free using g_malloc & friends, and g_slice, and gquark name tracking . (GNOME bug 606044)

In their GSOC Yuvi Panda pushed the work he started to rewrite Cheese in Vala, Jamie Nicol updated the Last.fm plugin of rhythmbox to support the new authentication API, and Salomon Sickert has written the first part of a support library for his “TaskView” project.